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...lica frustule. "Diatoms can manipulate silica in ways that nanotechnologists can only dream about. If we understood how they can design and build their patterned frustule as part of their biology, perhaps this could be adapted by humans," Rokhsar says. Scientists on the project, which includes 46 resea...

... new archetype of research that will develop novel ways of working synergistically to address the scientific, logistical, and intellectual barriers to interdisciplinary research. Recent advances have paved the way for significant gains in understanding how genetic variability can alter drug response. Desp...

...for insulin resistance and skeletal development in ways that may prove beneficial to human medicine. The work views nutrition of the horse from the points of reproduction, growth, exercise physiology, and health, Staniar said. Research projects examine fluctuations in pasture carbohydrate concentrations, ...

... its 2004 winners. This year's winners have found ways to improve existing atomic scale microscopes, employ early detection systems that could help test for diseases such as Alzheimer's, and further an emerging field known as microfluidics. An undergraduate winner, a graduate winner, and a grand prizewin...

...h blend logical and statistical representations in ways that employ standard deductive reasoning. The strength of this approach is that it has the ability to represent models of the world with significant complexity. "So far, most models have been fairly self-contained -- but the world does not work t...

...t researchers are only beginning to understand the ways in which roots are able to effect this developmental control from afar. Several characterized plant hormones, such as cytokinin and abscisic acid, are thought to be transmitted from root to shoots, yet these hormones have no clearly established role ...

...y to remain for some time because it is one of the ways in which the tangled relationship between the brain and the control of visceral function presents itself," Smith added. Some of Pavlov's other major accomplishments still seen today: Humane treatment of animals. When he got his own laboratory, Pavl...

... has lead to effort by Hopkins scientists to study ways to use viruses that can deliver ATM-blocking drugs to the cells. Tests in animals are expected to begin soon. In the current study, colon and prostate cancer cells lines were treated with either high levels of radiation or small amounts spread over m...

... about the human genome and thereby develop better ways of treating and preventing disease, the bovine genome sequence will serve as a tool for agricultural researchers striving to improve health and disease management of cattle and enhance the nutritional value of beef and dairy products. Sequencing of ...

... about the human genome and thereby develop better ways of treating and preventing disease. Researchers are currently comparing the draft version of the bovine genome sequence with those of the human and other organisms that have already been sequenced. The results of these analyses will be published ...

...peptide called ubiquitin is linked to a protein in ways that can change the protein's function and location within the cell. Originally, scientists thought ubiquitin was simply a universal "destroy me" signal for unneeded or harmful proteins, but it has recently been found to be associated with many other...

...early Earth from meteorites. "There are lots of ways to make amino acids," says Professor M. Reza Ghadiri, Ph.D., who is a member of The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at Scripps Research. "But the question is, how do you couple them together?" Ghadiri and Luke Leman, who is a member of the K...

... position he has developed and advanced systematic ways to reduce or prevent the consequences of tobacco use and obesity and diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Through his leadership, CDC and public health have achieved for chronic disease prevention the kind of recognition and support ...

...re different shapes and pack together in different ways depending on where they are located in a living thing and what their function is." In investigating the physical basis of biological patterning in the retina, Carthew and co-author Takashi Hayashi, a post-doctoral fellow at Northwestern, looked at no...

...eleted in breast cancer cells, suggesting possible ways in which these aberrant cells avoid being detected and destroyed by the body's natural defenses. In some instances, genes that biologists thought were being turned "on" or "off" by normal regulatory chemicals within cells may actually have been added...

...it from interfering with the rest of the neuron in ways that can trigger cell death. These findings provide evidence that inclusion bodies in Huntington's disease, and possibly other neurodegenerative diseases, help neurons cope with toxic proteins and prevent neurodegeneration. The approach developed by ...

...it from interfering with the rest of the neuron in ways that can trigger cell death. These findings...on. Many researchers have been working to develop ways of interfering with inclusion body formation as potential treatments for HD and other disorders. Th...

...ch activity at night," he said. "There are several ways to explain that, but one possibility was that there were two clocks running -- one governing the morning peak and one governing the evening peak." Rosbash and his colleagues theorized that if dual circadian clocks existed, they would likely occupy d...

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